Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality 

Immersion 2014 

Overview : Virtual reality engages the viewer in the actual storyline whether it's a game or a movie. It provides the viewer with more areas to allow our every day senses to be stimulated. It does this by allowing the viewers to believe they are apart of the journey themselves instead of just watching it take place. This reality is not confused with the real world, but with the new technology surfacing anything will be possible. 

1. Oculus rift 

The oculus rift is an extremely good example of virtual reality. It allows the viewer to put ,what look like binoculars, on to make the virtual reality that much more of a reality. They create this as more of modern as well as more fun way to engage in your everyday video games. (The ones compatible with this device of course.) This device is what is starting to blur the lines between actual reality and virtual reality. Since the viewer can clearly feel the eye piece itself it reminds the viewer constantly that they are in a virtual world. 

2. Samsung gear VR 

This device goes along with your cell phone. The Samsung Gear VR provides a virtual image of the objects surrounding you, as well as giving additional information about said objects. It also gives you a 360 degree video feed of the environment for a more interesting gaming experience. The gear also includes an oculus driven software that also enhances video experiences without any gaming involved. 

3. Google cardboard 

This cardboard assists you immensely. The Google cardboard allows you to take yourself on a virtual tour of your preference. It puts the virtual reality into your actual smartphone. It also allows you to be able to visit any part of the world with a tour guide. This cardboard also enhances the viewer experience by making it seem as though the screen is bigger than what it really is. 

4. Simulations

These are other types of virtual realities. Simulations are computer generated imitations of real world activities. These simulations allow people to show things they cannot replay, show/see again. They use simulations at many institutions mostly for a better way of learning. Simulations allow the students to take in extra information and become more familiar with what they are learning. 

5. Domes

A type of dome that is used greatly is the planetarium. This is a dome in which the main subject is the universe. This dome is extremely educational and fun way to project many things that have to do with astronomy. Such as the planets, celestial objects, etc. this projection allows you to see the night sky as if it were actually right there in front of you.


http://youtu.be/kBpFx-ixBiM

Augmented Reality

EiED 2014 Vienna

Overview: Augmented reality is displayed in many ways in today's modern world. The initiative was established in 2005. This version of reality takes the virtual world and makes it so it appears to be closer to our real world than the virtual version. Augmented reality adds more natural senses to help "blur" the lines between the real and virtual world.

1. Power point

Power points are a virtual version of information people use to display to others. Power points are extremely helpful when there is a lot of information you need to show to others without having to remember it all. It has immersive qualities in which the way people go about their presentations are easier to understand and be explained. Power points enhance the viewers' learning capability by explaining as well as showing them what they are learning.

2. Mine craft

A lot of institutions use Minecraft as a way of bringing together learning and games. This enhances learning capabilities because of the fact that people are enjoying themselves while gathering vital information. These learning games have found a way to make the player aware of the actual mission of the game and even more unaware of the fact that they are also learning simultaneously. This is also another form of where "science meets business."

3. Hands on demos

The hands-on demos are also a good learning tool. They let the one who is learning the information get a good feel of exactly what they are learning. They do this by providing the person learning this information with the same object they are teaching about. Therefore as they show you how to use a certain object you are also touching and using your own version of that object.

4. Speed sharing sessions

Speed sharing sessions are another tool that help the speaker get through their entire presentation without any interruptions. This eliminates questions that may throw off the speaker. This method also takes away uncertainties the speaker may be feeling themselves about their presentation. The 5 minute time limit also helps immensely by teaching the speaker to make sure their presentation contains enough in the 8 slides they contain to make their presentation last as well.

5. Workshops

Workshops are similar to all of these types of AR above. They allow multiple methods to be used to help engage whoever it is attempting at learning this information. They use hands on techniques, power point presentations, and many more. These various activities at workshops create an education friendly place where information such as this is not discouraging to learn about.

Growing my Facebook Follow

Just like twitter there are several ways to grow your followers, fans etc on facebook. One simple way is to let the mutual friend branch run its course and find people through that or allow people to find you. "People you May Know" is an easy feature of facebook to find mutual friends.
Another way would be to connect with other page members and be hands on. Asking for a shoutout or whatever the case is a simple way to grow your followers if you may. Sharing original content is also useful especially if its popular or interesting content. Tagging your friends from your original profile can also be a big hitter since thats where you may have a more established base of friends and following.  Link your page to your profile goes along with that too. If you have an email signature you can include that in the link too. As you can see there are several subtle ways to grow your following on social media. Commenting on others page with graceful intriguing thought can also aid in growing your followers. Contests, advertising, or promoting through your website can also be beneficial as well when trying to grow your follower count.

Growing my Twitter Followers

There are several ways in order to grow your twitter followers. Some more complex and hands on then others. You can easily gain followers through mutual friends seeing who mutual friends follow. You can also easily be seen by a feature on twitter that pops up when you follow someone or are doing any activity on twitter that says "People you May Know". Or there sit the simple way of asking people to shout you out and tell their followers to follow you. Or asking for people to retweet your own tweet. 

Now here is a way that may be more complicated and easier said than done in order to gain followers: Creating Valuable content. Creating valuable content or any attention grabbing interesting tweet can allow your tweet to travel  and be seen by being retweeted or favorited. Repetition and continuously sharing information helps too, even about the same content or the same exact tweet. 

Commenting on relevant information,news, or content can also help you grow your followers by engaging in conversation or maybe people feeling the same way and retweeting. Pretty much aiming at a popular topic or subject is a good target to aim at when tweeting rather than something irrelevant or old. Piggy backing of of this, you can also retweet valuable or interesting up to date content. Also engaging in promos or events or any entertainment can be useful to grow your followers too (asking listening responding). Promoting responsibly is good pointer also, along with countdowns to anything that you may find catching.

facebook editing

simply changing my profile picture and cover photo

testing youtube

i have subscribed to the immersive education youtube channel and here you can see proof of that as the box says "subscribed" and you can see my profile picture in the top right corner proving its me.

Liking Posts on Facebook

Here Ive liked the two most recent posts on the immersive education page and the proof is that the link where you usually click like, now says "unlike"

Testing twitter #2

Retweeting a tweet again but this time images are attached which changes the look of the tweet as a link (for/with image) and in actual view. and again it allows it to travel to multiple other parties.

Testing Twitter

SO here i just retweeted a tweet from immersive education twitter account as i waited for it to show up on my timeline and by retweeting it, i shared it with everyone so that more people can see pretty much hammering home the effect of social media, collaborating, and how information can travel quickly with the use of technology and social media.

On the road to mastering Facebook

Facebook has a live central news feed that allows you to see everything going with everyone you are friends with. you are able to add friends, accept friend requests, follow celebrities or slogans, business, etc if you may.
You can too post anything you please, your own thoughts or anything you wish to share : articles, videos, etc.
you can post pictures and facebook also has a feature where you can share other friends' posts or like their post showing gratification towards it for whatever reason.
all of these feautures simply allow you and other peoples world to be intertwined in a way which can aid in collaboration in a huge way.

here shows you it says "whats on your mind" and thats where you can post anything you please. you see a camera which which shows that you can upload and post a photo.

On the road to mastering Twitter

You may tweet out or send anything post that you please. anything in your mind or more important things such as breaking news, etc.
You can navigate and search whatever you want in order to keep up with any business, company, person, magazine, etc that you want.
You can also retweet anything you see sharing it with anyone that follows you.
Interaction is also easy on twitter. along with this you can favorite anything post that you see and they collect in your category called favorites which are all viewable by people who follow you
You can direct message people where others cannot see, you can also interact with people through tweets which would show up on your profile and others timeline.
you receive notifications for all of this.
all these features aid in collaboration very easily since you can view everything someone tweets, favorites or retweets

here you can see the favorite tool

Social Media

twitter : bishoptype_  (new class specific account)

facebook : Al Louis-Jean

Youtube : jayforjuice@gmail.com

Class 3, Assignment 1: Twitter, YouTube and Facebook

Here is a shot from the iphone 6 software review

Hardware System

the iphone 6 plus was in high demand and cost either 750$ or 850$ depedning on which GB size you choose. Iphones compete with samsung galaxy's or note's because those are the phone that are similar in size and ultimately challenge and serve as one of the better phones available. Its simple a phone that does almost eveyrthing a computer can do as well as a phone, ive owned an iphone of some sort for almost 4 years now and i have nothing but a great experience with it barring screen cracking or simple technology tweaks.

The iphone 6 plus is similar to the rest of the newer iphones. Somethings like the touch id cable, the camera lenses and pixels, display cables, and battery are all more efficient and better in the way specific to the perk. The battery is a 2915 milli-ampere-hour battery which is double the capacity of the iphone 5s and bigger than the samsung galaxy also. The camera now has a focus pixel phase which has auto focus similar to the galaxy. 
The logic board also has several new features ultimately making it better. The display piece now comes out of the phone first which simplifies the screen repair making it easier as oppose to the past iphones. The fingerprint feature has been rerouted making the sensor stronger more efficient and making it safer to open when taking it apart.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/65yYqoX_1As

denver story pt.2

again like at la junta junior college the historic trading post is trying to be created in minecraft. its a 3d version of the historic place and they are using the video to recreate and make it iconic and revisitable since it was popular, iconic, and historic. but they will work with Stanford's architectural design program to sort of hammer it home and receive assistance.

http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc

Denver Story

Highschool and college students at la junta are pretty much working to create and build a virtual bent's old fort.They too are an immersive education club in colorado. They use microsoft as a software (Minecraft) and will soon move on to advanced engineered based software allowing them to further learn and create in the course.

They have worked to create a 3D online version of the santa fe trail and bent's old fort which is a historic thing in that town and allow people to visit the place from anywhere in the world.Bent's old fort is iconic and historic and immersive education is allowing them to be be able to do such a thing where people can visit from anywhere in the world.

http://immersiveeducation.org/@/bc/

assignment 2-1 : what is immersive education

I just posted assignment 2-1 : what is immersive education

screenshot pt.2

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intro

Hi guys my name is al louis-jean, I'm from brockton,ma and i am a returning student athlete to boston college looking to finishing my degree and i play for the chicago bears. i have never had an online class so this is completely entirely different to me but im looking forward to this type of class experience.